Psalms
49:10
For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
92:6
A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
94:8
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
Proverbs
1:22
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
1:32
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
3:35
The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
8:5
O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
10:1
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
10:18
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
10:23
It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
12:23
A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.
13:16
Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly.
13:19
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
13:20
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
14:7
Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
14:8
The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
14:16
A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
14:24
The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.
14:33
Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.
15:2
The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
15:7
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
15:14
The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
15:20
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
17:10
A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
17:12
Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
17:16
Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?
17:21
He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
17:24
Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
17:25
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
18:2
A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
18:6
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
18:7
A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
19:1
Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
19:10
Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
19:13
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
19:29
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
21:20
There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
23:9
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
26:1
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
26:3
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.
26:4
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
26:5
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
26:6
He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
26:7
The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
26:8
As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.
26:9
As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
26:10
The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
26:11
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
26:12
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
28:26
He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.